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75
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
As is true in most buddy pictures, the real love in This Means War is between FDR and Tuck. Pine and Hardy are an odd choice as Men Who Bond. Pine behaves like a player on Entourage; Hardy broods as if he thinks dating is torture. But as a result, they're kind of cute in an itchy and scratchy way, bumping shoulders in a pantomime of what men do in love and war.
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63
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The film's focus on the contest between the two agents does throw the film off-balance.
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50
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Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
If you can get past the gross invasion of privacy issues that would exist if this were real life and not just a frothy confection, what you have is some bittersweet fun peppered by bursts of sharp patter, the best between the boys.
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50
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The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Perfectly acceptable watched on the back of an airline seat or at home while you're doing housework.
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50
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Silly action sequences grow tedious and rarely blend with the wannabe madcap comedy.
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38
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.
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38
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A trio of appealing actors is trapped in an action-spiked romcom death-sentenced by a lack of humor, heart and a coherent reason for being.
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38
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
As this sloppy, scattered, utterly synthetic piece of Hollywood widgetry unspools, it becomes increasingly clear that the romantic tension at play exists mostly between the men in question.
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25
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It's got both a soap opera plotline and a Chuck Norris-load of taxpayer-financed gadgets and gear. It also has Reese Witherspoon in another terrible part.
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0
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An ugly, misguided exercise.
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